Another blog by Ahmad Ali Karim…

NaPoWriMo Poem #1: Essay, Too Hard To Live On The Moon

I guess it’s too hard to live on the moon I guess it’s too hard to move to the moon I guess it’s too hard to start space exploring I guess it’s too hard to begin space exploring I guess we might never live on the moon I guess we’re not fit to live on the moon I guess we couldn’t afford to buy a spaceship anyway I guess we’re not suited to be moon explorers I guess we’ll never live on the moon I guess moon is not in the cards now I guess mom wouldn’t make a good moon explorer I guess I can’t expect we’ll ever live on the moon now I guess I’ll have to give up all my dreams of living on the moon I guess I’ll never live on the moon now We couldn’t build a spaceship anyway though Kowalski build one in Central Park Zoo Maybe someday I’ll build a Lego spaceship I guess living on the moon is really out Playing with aliens, walking between the miles of rows of moon rocks I guess moon exploring is just too difficult We’ll never live on the moon Too much work and still to be poets Who are the astronaut poets Was there ever a poet who went to the moon Neil Armstrong went to the moon And Buzz Aldrin has gone to the moon too Pete Conrad went there too But none of them are poets Someone told me Alan Bean had been painting No poets are real-life astronauts If Alan Shepard could be a test pilot and Ed Mitchell too, Why not a poet who was also an astronaut Of course David Scott wrote a book And John Young published an autobiography Perhaps some of them can become poets I guess poets tend to live more momentarily Than life on space would allow You could never have free time to write a poetry Or to join NaPoWriMo every April I may want to go to the moon but my mother was right I should never have tried to jump to the moon Unless I can convince myself the cow really did jump over the moon That we can all just jump to the moon It’ll be very easy and we’ll pay nothing Or worry crashing and unable to survive Some might jump even higher and reach the stars If we can just dream and imagine endlessly